peter

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

intransitive v. To diminish slowly and come to an end; dwindle. Often used with out: Their enthusiasm soon petered out.

intransitive v. To become exhausted. Used with out.

n. Vulgar Slang The penis.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The penis.

v. To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles

intransitive v. To become exhausted; to run out; to fail; -- used generally with out.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A kind of wine otherwise called peter-sec-me and peter-sameene.

n. A kind of cosmetic.

n. See blue-peter

n. In whist, a conventional signal indicating a call for trumps. See peter, verb

n. The common American coot, Fulica americana: so called with reference to its color, with an allusion to blue-peter.

In whist, to call for trumps by throwing away a higher card of a suit while holding a smaller.

To diminish gradually and then cease; fail; be-come exhausted; in mining, to split up into branches and become lost: said of a vein which runs out or disappears, so that it can no longer be followed by the miner: with out.

n. In thieves' cant, a traveling-bag, portmanteau, trunk, or any piece of baggage or a parcel.

n. disciple of Jesus and leader of the Apostles; regarded by Catholics as the vicar of Christ on earth and first Pope

n. obscene terms for penis

Etymologies

Origin unknown.

From the name Peter.

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

US, 1902, presumably from shared initial pe-. (Wiktionary)

1812, US miners’ slang, Unknown. Various speculative etymologies have been suggested.[2][3][4][5] One suggestion is that it comes from peter being an abbreviation of saltpeter, the key ingredient in gunpowder – when a mine was exhausted, it was “petered”. Other derivations are from St. Peter (from sense of “rock”), or French péter ("to fart"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

Yes | No | Report from whitetail1 wrote 1 year 2 weeks ago peter is right. they do work because if a doe hasn't been serviced she will come back in around 30 days later, then a third time if needed.

In the begining of the series Hiro finds peter on the subway and he says "you look diffrent without the scar" so I don't think that peter is going to regenerate. no doubt he is going to get away from Sylar, but he's not going to regenerate thus Peter getting the scar.

Why would they even think of using a 45 year old? in the BD when bella says that carlisle would be a grandfather she says that he looks like zeus’s younger, better looking brother. anyways peter is soo hot for a dad of three. he looks good with jenny garth.

I have seen it twice, and it did get better n a second viewing. lorettajohnson hey peter, that is very interesting. there is a fanboy in my accounting dept that saw it over the weekend and he said it was very "pedestrian"

Rob Pattinson, milo whatever (can't spell last name but also known as peter patrelli from heroes!), Kellen Lutz, Jackson Rathborne (with staight black hair) don't kill me for this but Taylor Lautner with his new hot bod!